Press Space to see the next note or Backspace to go back to the previous note.
Good!  You've just
learned how easy
it is to browse a
pile of Useful
Notes.  Continue
to browse this
pile for a short
tutorial on how to
use Useful Notes.	
Useful Notes is an information
manager.  The basic unit of
information is a "note" like
the one you are reading now.
Notes are grouped into "piles".
Tutorial.uno is a pile.
Think of Useful Notes as being a blank pad of note paper.9
Each time you want to remember something you the grab the8
top sheet, jot down the information, then put it on your
desktop someplace.
Like real paper notes, Useful
Notes can overlap.  If you
want to see something under a
real note you move it.  Press
Scroll Lock now and practice
moving this note around.	
Unlike real notes, Useful
Notes can be resized.  If
you have not already done
so, press Scroll Lock
again and try resizing
this note.
To start a new note
simply press the
'N' key and type.
Useful Notes will
keep the words
inside the borders
of a note.  Press
the Esc key when
you are finished
typing.  Try it.
The text for a note can
be bigger than the note
itself.  You can use
the cursor keys to move
the text around inside
a note window.  Press
the cursor keys now to
see the text below.
The arrows in the upper
and lower right hand
corners of a note show0
where there is more          **** MORE TEXT ****
text.  Is there text on
this note you have not	
seen yet?
As you can see the desktop has 
become quite cluttered.  You can
clear away all but the current
note with the Order command.
Press 'O' to select Order then
'C' to Clean.  We'll look at
some of the other Order options
later.
Each note has a
unique ID number
"pre-printed" on
it.  Press the
Ctrl and the 'G'
key at the same
time to see one
way this number
can be used.
If you think of a note
as a piece of paper,
so far we have only
been using the "front"
of the note for text.
There is also some
useful information on
the "back" of each
note.
If you could see the backside of a
note it might look like this:
                              
 Time/Date:                   
           
                              
                              
 Description:                 
                              
                              
 Properties:                  
                              
  Execute  
      Locked  
                              
  File     
      Nowrap  
                              
When you create a 
note, the time and
date is stamped onto
the back.  Useful
Notes can use this
Time/Date stamp to
"Order" your notes
based on when you
entered them.
You can type any
text you want into
the Description for
a note.  Press 'E'
then F7 to add a
description to this
note.  Press Enter
then Esc when you 
are done typing.
The Description is used in many ways by"
Useful Notes.  You can Order notes'
alphabetically by description.  You can%
Search for specific "Patterns" within%
descriptions, and we'll see later how(
descriptions can be used to "link" notes	
together.	
Notes can have special "Properties".  For)
instance, when a note is "Locked" you can(
no longer Edit it.  Word wrapping can be&
turned off in a note with the "Nowrap")
option.  If a Property has been selected,%
its first letter appears in the upper(
right corner of the note.  Can you guess$
which properties apply to this note?
dir | more; text after ; is ignored
Notes with the Execute property set ON can&
be used to run DOS commands.  When you*
press the Enter key while on an Executable*
note, Useful Notes will "shell out" to DOS*
using the note's Description as a command.(
This will NOT work if you have popped-up)
Useful Notes from the DOS prompt or there'
is not enough memory to run the command%
specified by the Description.  Try to
"run" this note.
When Execute is selected two additional*
sub-Properties appear.  "Clear" will blank(
the screen prior to running the command,*
and "Restore" will redraw the desktop when
the command returns.
With the "File" property set, a note's%
Description will be treated as a file'
name.  When saving a note, Useful Notes*
normally puts the text for the note in the*
"pile file".  A "File" note's text will be%
saved in a separate file named by the$
Description.  Likewise when loading,)
Useful Notes gets the text from the named
file.
hot spots
If you enclose some text in [square brackets],+
Useful Notes will treat that text as a "hot/
spot".  You can use the Tab key to move between,
hot spots.  When the cursor is on a hot spot+
the hot spot will be highlighted.  Pressing+
Enter while on a hot spot will cause Useful/
Notes to search for that hot spot's text in the-
notes' Descriptions.  If the search succeeds,,
you will be moved to the first note with the
matching Description.
square brackets
The opening and
closing square
brackets must be
on the same line.
   [hot spots]
Well that should
be enough to get
you started.  Try
the other commands
not covered in
this tutorial.  Be
creative!  Have
             Mike